Over the past three decades, Uruguay saw the largest death toll from climate change-related disasters in 2016, after a total of eight people lost their lives. Climate change-related disasters include storms, floods, wet mass movements, extreme temperatures, droughts and fires.
Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Uruguay from 1997 to 2016
According to the source, a disaster is a calamitous and sudden event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material, economic and environmental loss that exceeds the capacity of the affected community or society to cope with the situation with their own resources.
Climate change-related disasters included are storms, extreme temperatures, floods, wet mass displacement, droughts, and wildfires.
The source did not provide data for the missing years.
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Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. (January 2, 2024). Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Uruguay from 1997 to 2016 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 01, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409826/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-uruguay/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. "Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Uruguay from 1997 to 2016." Chart. January 2, 2024. Statista. Accessed January 01, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409826/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-uruguay/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. (2024). Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Uruguay from 1997 to 2016. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 01, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409826/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-uruguay/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. "Number of Human Deaths Due to Climate Change-related Disasters in Uruguay from 1997 to 2016." Statista, Statista Inc., 2 Jan 2024, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409826/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-uruguay/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Uruguay from 1997 to 2016 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409826/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-uruguay/ (last visited January 01, 2025)
Number of human deaths due to climate change-related disasters in Uruguay from 1997 to 2016 [Graph], Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, January 2, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1409826/number-of-human-deaths-due-to-climate-change-related-disasters-uruguay/
